CIELITO F. HABITO
NO FREE LUNCH: Successor leaders
December 08, 2020
The pandemic and its mobility restrictions did not stop some two dozen youths, and surely countless others out there, from doing good and helping uplift the lives of people around them. I got my annual fix of inspiration last week from the presentations of the third cohort of fellows of the Future Bridging Leaders Program (FBLP) of the Asian Institute of Management's TEaM Energy Center for Bridging Leadership (AIMTEC), whose Board of Advisers I chair. They are pursuing "change projects" falling under the broad themes of social enterprise, environment, health, education, and persons deprived of liberty - all concrete examples of doing good for the common good."Bridging" here refers to the challenge of bridging societal divides in the social, economic, cultural, environmental, and political realms - and in our country, these divides can be rather wide and deep. Indeed, what the world needs today is bridging leadership that unifies those being led, not further heighten the divides among them as certain prominent leaders have instead been doing.
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/135970/successor-leaders
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